Comparison of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss with Tinnitus and Short-Term Tinnitus

Table 1

The basic information of SSH and STT ().

	SSH	STT
Number of patients	86	76
Gender (male/female)	51/35	35/41	0.092
Age (years) (SD)	40.59 (1.61)	34.41 (1.96)	0.062
Course of tinnitus (days) (SD)	14.20 (1.07)	14.89 (1.19)	0.902
Unilateral tinnitus/bilateral tinnitus	81/5	42/34	<0.001
Left ears/right ears	42/49	58/52	0.354
Frequency of tinnitus (HZ) (SD)	2931.44 (263.84)	3870.95 (338.05)	0.060
Loudness of tinnitus (dB) (SD)	46.98 (2.25)	22.01 (1.87)	<0.001
Pure tone average (SD)	57.30 (1.91)	17.31 (0.50)	<0.001
THI before RI (SD)	44.55 (2.60)	41.09 (2.50)	0.417
THI after RI (SD)	34.28 (2.62)	33.37 (2.38)	0.949
VAS before RI (SD)	5.41 (0.20)	4.75 (0.21)	0.051
VAS after RI (SD)	4.05 (0.25)	3.75 (0.23)	0.511
RI: completely positive/partially positive/negative	14/37/35	4/39/33	0.079

SD: standard deviation; SSH: sudden sensorineural hearing loss group; STT: short-term tinnitus group; THI: the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory; VAS: visual analog scale with respect to tinnitus loudness; RI: residual inhibition.